Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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